Today I published a poem dear to me, called King of the Garden. I first started writing it back in June, during my trip to Croatia. While there, we visited Stari Grad, a small town on the island Hvar. It was once a home of Petar Hektorović, a Croatian poet and writer. He lived in 16th century and during his lifetime, he designed and built Tvrdalj, a palace on the island with a charming garden and renaissance architecture. The beautiful pond in the center has a wonderful quality: the fish can freely swim there from the sea through a tunnel, so they have a choice to be there. The color shifting emerald water is mesmerizing. The garden is a blooming hideaway place and the plants and trees that grow there are still the same as centuries ago, when the poet took care of the garden himself. Tvrdalj was a place that everyone could find a shelter in, listen to poetry and ancient works from Petar. Everyone around the place and the visitors said that it seems like the time stopped there, half a millenium ago. It’s such a true and beautiful concept, so I started the poem with the words ‘You have found immortality…’.
I really wanted to tell you about this place and provide with some pictures so hopefully you’ll read the poem now, having them in your mind. I really wish to come back to the garden some day and absorb more of the poetry still existing in the flowers, fauna and the silent wise stone.
[ID: A digital painting of a common eastern firefly with its wings outstretched, done in bright reds, yellows, and oranges. The firefly is set against a deep navy background, with a swirling yellow light around the firefly’s abdomen. Yellow light catches on the wings and body.]
me, logging onto Tumblr after watching the debate: oh I bet there’s some interesting stuff, some angry posts, let’s go see what’s happening
also me: the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly the fly
